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Parasitic Saprotrophic Mushrooms

5 species: 1 choice edible, 2 edible with caution, 1 edible, 1 medicinal.

Species in this group

5 species
Australian honey fungus cluster with honey-brown scaled caps and ringed stems at a tree base

Australian Honey Fungus

Armillaria luteobubalina

Caution
A large bracket of chicken of the woods in overlapping shelves on an oak trunk, sulphur yellow margins grading to bright orange

Chicken of the Woods

Laetiporus sulphureus

Caution
Dried caterpillar fungus specimens, each a pale tan caterpillar body with a dark club growing from the head

Cordyceps

Ophiocordyceps sinensis

Medicinal
A large hen of the woods rosette at the base of an oak trunk, overlapping gray-brown fronds with pale wavy margins

Maitake

Grifola frondosa

Choice edible
Tremella snow fungus growing from a fallen hardwood branch as a dense rosette of thin translucent white frilled lobes

Tremella

Tremella fuciformis

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